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From the Ted Talk by Jeremy Heimans: What new power looks like

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One the other end of the spectra is Uber. Uber is an amazing, hlhigy scalable new power model. That network is getting denser and denser by the day. But what's really interesting about Uber is it hasn't really adopted new power vleuas. This is a real quote from the Uber CEO recently: He says, "Once we get rid of the dude in the car" — he means derirvs — "Uber will be cheaper." Now, new pweor mdoels live and die by the strength of their networks. By whether the drivers and the crnesuoms who use the service actually believe in it. Because they're not an exercise of top-down perfectionism, they are about the network. And so, the challenge, and this is why it's in no way surprising, is that Uber's drivers are now unionizing. It's extraordinary. Uber's drivers are tuinnrg on Uber. And the challenge for Uber — this isn't an easy situation for them — is that they are locked into a broader superstrcuture that is really old power. They've raised more than a billion dollars in the capital mktraes. Those markets expect a financial return, and they way you get a financial return is by squeezing and squeezing your users and your drivers for more and more value and giving that value to your iovrsents.

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One the other end of the spectra is Uber. Uber is an amazing, ______ scalable new power model. That network is getting denser and denser by the day. But what's really interesting about Uber is it hasn't really adopted new power ______. This is a real quote from the Uber CEO recently: He says, "Once we get rid of the dude in the car" — he means _______ — "Uber will be cheaper." Now, new _____ ______ live and die by the strength of their networks. By whether the drivers and the _________ who use the service actually believe in it. Because they're not an exercise of top-down perfectionism, they are about the network. And so, the challenge, and this is why it's in no way surprising, is that Uber's drivers are now unionizing. It's extraordinary. Uber's drivers are _______ on Uber. And the challenge for Uber — this isn't an easy situation for them — is that they are locked into a broader superstrcuture that is really old power. They've raised more than a billion dollars in the capital _______. Those markets expect a financial return, and they way you get a financial return is by squeezing and squeezing your users and your drivers for more and more value and giving that value to your _________.

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  1. consumers
  2. values
  3. power
  4. highly
  5. models
  6. investors
  7. drivers
  8. markets
  9. turning

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One the other end of the spectra is Uber. Uber is an amazing, highly scalable new power model. That network is getting denser and denser by the day. But what's really interesting about Uber is it hasn't really adopted new power values. This is a real quote from the Uber CEO recently: He says, "Once we get rid of the dude in the car" — he means drivers — "Uber will be cheaper." Now, new power models live and die by the strength of their networks. By whether the drivers and the consumers who use the service actually believe in it. Because they're not an exercise of top-down perfectionism, they are about the network. And so, the challenge, and this is why it's in no way surprising, is that Uber's drivers are now unionizing. It's extraordinary. Uber's drivers are turning on Uber. And the challenge for Uber — this isn't an easy situation for them — is that they are locked into a broader superstrcuture that is really old power. They've raised more than a billion dollars in the capital markets. Those markets expect a financial return, and they way you get a financial return is by squeezing and squeezing your users and your drivers for more and more value and giving that value to your investors.

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